Malcolm Howard Dewey papers

Author/Creator:

Dewey, Malcolm Howard, 1881-

Format:

Archival Material or Manuscripts

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Malcolm Howard Dewey papers

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Photographs
Professors (teachers).

Subjects:

Conrow, Wilford Seymour
Dewey, Edward Hooker,1837?-1904
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus,1848-1907
Emory University.Glee Club
Emory University--Faculty
Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Artists--United States
College teachers--Georgia
Portrait painters--New York (State)
Sculptors--United States

Description/Summary

Finding Aid:

Finding aid available electronically

Summary:

The collection consists of papers of Malcolm Howard Dewey from circa 1903-1963. The papers include correspondence from sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens to Dewey's father, Dr. Edward Hooker Dewey, regarding patient-physician matters relating to diet and health (1903-1904); letters between Dewey and portraitist Wilford Seymour Conrow primarily pertaining to portraits painted for Emory University (1944-1956); and other miscellaneous letters. The collection also includes photographs of Metropolitan Opera stars; articles relating to Glenn Memorial Methodist Church, where Dewey directed music and the Emory University Glee Club, which he conducted from 1920-1957.

Language:

English

Language Note:

Materials entirely in English.

Physical Type/Description:

.5 linear ft : (1 box).

Restrictions on Access:

Unrestricted access.

General Note:

Related collections in this repository: Maybelle Jones Dewey papers and Emory University Glee Club records.
Cataloged as part of the Georgia Archives and Manuscripts Automated Access Project: A Special Collections Gateway Program of the University Center in Georgia.

Organization and Arrangement:

Unprocessed collection.

Biographical/Historical Note:

Malcolm Howard Dewey (1881-1966), born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, received his graduate degrees from Howard University (1912) and from the University of Chicago (1918). He joined the Emory University faculty in 1919 as professor of Romance Languages and organized the Department of Fine Arts in 1927.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990010875790302486

OCLC Number:

173863222

Barcode:

010003057534